"Science Diplomacy and Nuclear Threats" Siegfried S.Hecker, Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Siegfried S. Hecker, former Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, for a discussion of scientists, the national laboratories, and the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Hecker traces his career in material sciences, describes the evolution of his intellectual focus, and recalls his leadership of Los Alamos. He then traces the changes in the international security environment in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union discussing the response of the U.S. and the weapons laboratories to the momentous events that created a qualitatively different set of security challenges. Hecker then analyzes the threats posed by terrorist organizations, the dangers of nuclear proliferation, and the challenges for U.S. policy in assessing the motivation and capabilities of Pakistan, North Korea, and Iran. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the political and technical dimensions of the international security landscape. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/ http://conversationswithhistory.typepad.com/conversations_with_histor/ http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1721

Architecture 180AC, 001, 001 - Spring 2014 Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

Distinguished UC Berkeley faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines read and discuss a favorite poem. This year's participants include: Ani Adhikari (Statistics); Mary Catherine Birgeneau; Patrick Dillon (California magazine); Janette Hernandez (Education); Davitt Moroney (Music); Charlotte Rubens (Library); Jonathan Poullard (Dean of Students); Harsha Ram (Slavic Languages and Literature); Clare You (Korean Sudies) [events] [artshumanities] [lunchpoems] Credits: producers:Educational Technology Services

CED 50th Anniversary - Visualizing the Future of Environmental Design: Designed to Hesitate: Consciousness as Paying Attention Barbara Maria Stafford, Department of Art William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, Emerita, University of Chicago If we look at how human beings behave when they involve themselves in more complex activities (thinking, communicating, investigating, observing) we observe that they slow down, even hesitate. This talk seeks to open the door onto a dialogue between the mind-science of the humanities and the brain-science of neurobiology, through the development of a typology of looking based on neurological research and different art formats. Barbara Maria Stafford is at the forefront of a growing movement that calls for the humanities to confront the brain's material realities. In Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images (University of Chicago Press, 2007), she argues that humanists should seize upon the exciting neuroscientific discoveries that are illuminating the underpinnings of cultural objects. In turn, she contends, brain scientists could enrich their investigations of mental activity by incorporating phenomenological considerations — particularly the intricate ways that images focus intentional behavior and allow us to feel thought. http://www.ced.berkeley.edu